About Smith’s Food & Drug
Smith’s Food & Drug Centers, Inc. was founded in 1911 in Brigham City, Utah by Lorenzo J. Smith. A subsidiary of The Kroger Company, it is a leading regional supermarket chain operating in the Southwest, Northwest, and Tennessee. After completing a merger with Portland-based Fred Meyer in 1997, Fred Meyer was in turn acquired by Cincinnati-based Kroger in 1999, making Kroger the largest supermarket chain in the United States. Its headquarters are in Salt Lake City.